37 h. ago Mahmood hopes Five Eyes intelligence alliance can help tackle migrants crisis

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: ‘We will agree new measures to protect our borders with our five eyes partners, hitting people smugglers hard.’

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51 h. ago New home secretary hit with immediate crisis as small boat Channel crossings top 30,000

Shabana Mahmood will host representatives from the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand to discuss ways to ‘smash the gangs’ as new figures reveal the scale of the migrant crisis she has inherited as the new home secretary

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57 h. ago Keir's next nightmare: Starmer faces Labour civil war over party's deputy leadership as senior MP delivers withering verdict on PM in wake of Angela Rayner row and migrant crisis

Dame Emily Thornberry, a senior Labour MP, said she was 'considering' a bid for the deputy role as she delivered a withering assessment of the Prime Minister's first year in power.

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3 d. ago Nigel Farage confirms he would send women asylum seekers back to Taliban in Afghanistan

It comes after confusion over the Reform UK leader’s position on the issue

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6 d. ago Under strain police dealt with record number of protests this summer as tensions flared over migrant crisis

More than 3,000 protests this summer - the highest number in three years - have put forces under ‘chronic pressure’, with up to 40 more planned for this weekend

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7 d. ago Voices: Trust me, splitting up refugee families is not the answer to the migrant crisis

As the Home Office seeks to revert back to the 28-day move-on period for asylum-seekers and pauses reunions, Alex Fraser of the British Red Cross explains how the government needs to better support refugees – starting with a focus on family

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7 d. ago ‘I won’t stand on the shoreline and shout at the sea’: Cooper attacks Farage and Badenoch’s migrant crackdown calls

The home secretary insisted the government will ‘get on with the hard graft, roll up our sleeves and do it step by step’

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7 d. ago Yvette Cooper fails to guarantee that boat crossings will fall by next year

The home secretary also failed to confirm that migrants will be sent back to France this month as part of the returns agreement, saying she refused to make ‘grand promises’

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7 d. ago Leading female politicians and artists reject attempts to link migration and sexual abuse

The letter accuses the right of exploiting ‘violence against women to fuel hate and division’

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8 d. ago Yvette Cooper pauses new refugee family reunions in fresh asylum crackdown

Charities warn the changes will ‘push more desperate people into the arms of smugglers in an effort to reunite with loved ones’

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer's 8 biggest challenges as he returns to Downing Street after recess

The Prime Minister will seek to guide his government through the migrant hotel crisis, stave off the threat of Reform, and then address the small matter of the Budget

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9 d. ago Farage and Reform ‘whipping up anger’ on migrants, cabinet minister warns

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson claimed Mr Farage has ‘no interest’ in finding solutions to the migrant crisis and small boats

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9 d. ago DANIEL HANNAN: We don't need the European human rights brigade telling our tolerant and liberal nation how to deal with the migrant crisis

Britain's departure from the European Convention on Human Rights is starting to feel inevitable, triggered by immigration policy failures. But remember, a human rights lawyer is in No 10...

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1 week ago Church of England’s most senior bishop accuses Nigel Farage of ‘kneejerk’ response to migrant crisis

Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell says Reform UK leader is not offering a solution to the ‘big issues’ which lead to the small boat crossings

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1 week ago Starmer warned he must shut migrant hotels or face losing Labour voters to Reform

Labour grandee Lord Falconer tells PM to take action over migrant crisis after government won Court of Appeal challenge over Epping hotel

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1 week ago GB News descends into chaos as guests clash in fiery migrant row

GB News was sent into chaos as a heated argument over the migrant crisis broke out live on air

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1 week ago JAN MOIR: The pious saints of the Left are appalled by Farage's plans. But what's THEIR answer to the migrant crisis?

Keir Starmer promised to bring order to the border - but the situation has only worsened under his leadership. A record 111,084 people claimed asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025.

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1 week ago Starmer to ‘replace third top aide in less than a year’ in latest Downing Street reset

Amid questions over the direction of government and mounting criticism over its handling of the migrant crisis, Nin Pandit’s reported departure has triggered speculation the prime minister is attempting to conduct yet another reset within Downing Street

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1 week ago Britain has the most illegal migrants in Europe: How the country is lagging behind Continental neighbours in bid to tackle migrant crisis

The Reform UK leader vowed to deport as many as 600,000 people if he wins power after detaining them in 'large-scale raids' - an echo of the crackdown by US president Donald Trump.

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1 week ago Farage rows back on plan to deport women and children as part of migration crackdown

On Tuesday, Nigel Farage indicated the party would detain and deport women and children as part of their plans - but the following day insisted media reports which said he would do so were ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’

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